Pharmacovigilance

Ensuring the Safe Use of Medicine

Pharmacovigilance (PV)

According to WHO, Pharmacovigilance (PV) is defined as the
science and activities relating to the detection, assessment,
understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other
drug-related problem.

At the end of May 2016, 153 countries were part of the WHO PV
Programme.

Objective of PV:

Patient Care :

To improve patient care & safety

Public Health :

Early detection of unknown safety problem

Risk Benefit Assessment:

To contribute to the identification, assessment of benefit, harm, effectiveness & risk of medicine